Deniss VASILJEVS (LAT) | Men Free Skating | ISU World Championships | Boston 2025 | #FigureSkating

Our next competitor represents Latvia. Please welcome Denis Vasiljevs. Well this guy could hold 13,500 people in his hands. Fantastic reception for him everywhere he goes and rightly so. The wonderful Denis Vasiljevs from Latvia. He makes the triple axel, double axel on the end, that's his sequence. This is a great start. And there's the flip. Triple axel number two. And there's the triple lutz with a triple salchow on the end, fantastic. And that's the jump start now. One more time from Latvia, Denis Vasiljevs. Well he has brought the house down. A stunning performance from Denis Vasiljevs. Haven't seen him skate like that for a long, long time. It was magnificent. A touch of the John Curries at the end there. It gives you goosebumps. Just amazing, he's getting bombarded by the toys. Need a crash helmet on to go out there now. It was fantastic. Now a couple of the jumps I think might be short in rotation. I think that quad salchow at the beginning, I wasn't sure about the first axel either. Looked like it might have been a little bit tight on rotation. So the technical panel I'm sure are going to have a look at a couple of things. Let's take a look, here's the quad salchow. It's in the system as under-rotated. Denis opting for a safer layout here at the World Championships. Removed one of his quad salchows. Here the triple lutz, triple toe. This was his second jumping element. Look at the length that he gets on this combination. He almost jumps, he almost did a Midori Ito. He did, he nearly decapitated the cameraman. And here is the triple axel. Step, double axel. Yeah, that one was good. This one was pretty good. It's the second one that looked a little bit short. It is in the system as under-rotated. Denis such a master of his craft. Master of performance. He wanted to do this program justice for his choreographer. And he felt like he understands the character and he still hadn't delivered it fully on the ice. I think right now he did. What we just saw was my favorite part. It was magic. The choreo sequence with a beautiful long spread eagle held. That was amazing. So the under-rotations just affecting the grade of execution a little bit. There is a reduced value as well for these two jumping passes. Not major, but it will affect his technical score and therefore the total score. So 166.37 is his season's best score. I think he's going to blow that out of the water. Yeah, 172.27. That's fantastic. A new season's best. And he has knocked that right out of the ballpark.